Mandaval Quotes & Sayings

I don't wanna be a rock star. I don't believe in rock stars. If you really examine what goes with being a rock star, I've avoided that really well. — Ted Nugent

Even men without a gospel have their Mount of Olives. And one must not fall asleep on theirs either. — Albert Camus

Then, just like that, Gaby remembered the real last time she had seen Alma cry. It was the day Mrs. Gomez had picked the girls up from school early to tell them that Gaby's mom had been arrested at work. Alma wept immediately. She seemed to know what it meant before Gaby could even grasp Mrs. Gomez's words. Two weeks later, when her mom was deported, Gaby cried for a week straight. It was Alma who finally dragged her outside and back into the world. — Angela Cervantes

Know that nothing anyone ever does to you can be as terrible as what you do yourself. Remember that. — David Clement-Davies

I had to open my eyes, so I could see a new life! — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Please don't wait until the doctors tell you that you are going to have a baby to begin to take care of it. It is already there. Whatever you are, whatever you do, your baby will get it. Anything you eat, any worries that are on your mind will be for him or her. Can you tell me that you cannot smile? Think of the baby, and smile for him, for her, for the future generations. Please don't tell me that a smile and your sorrow just don't go together. It's your sorrow, but what about your baby? It's not his sorrow, its not her sorrow. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself. — Samuel Rutherford

A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax ... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize. — Thomas Jefferson

Just because you're an angel doesn't mean you have to be a fool. — Terry Pratchett

Writers of historical fiction would be lost without libraries and archives. — Ruta Sepetys

Before you abuse, criticize, and accuse walk a mile in my shoes. — Elvis Presley

To wrap up the idea of 'Parade's End' in a sentence or two, I would say it's a love story in which we see a man with two women, and we know what's attractive about them. And we know why and what they feel about him. — Tom Stoppard